I had to link the digital citizenship agreements I have developed to create a continuum that starts in the junior school with our younger learners and proceeds through to our more senior students. I took the three agreements or guidelines and combined them into one document that follows three strands – personal responsibility, social responsibility [...]
Global Digital Citizenship is a critical element of any teaching program at any level. Our students are connected. Irrespective of the age of the student they are wired. We are seeing devices reducing in cost, increasing in availability and entering most classrooms and almost every school. If you ask a students a question there first [...]
I was asked yesterday what I considered to be the four components of effective digital learning. (Why four? The person who asked me wanted four, there may be more but this is the parameters I was given.) The question intrigued me. The focus was a little bit to do with tools to use for learning, [...]
This is an interesting article from the US about the effects of social networking on learning. The paper finds that social networking helps the students. Here is one quote from the article “When kids feel connected and have a strong sense of belonging to the school community, they do better in school,” said Greenhow, an [...]
Earlier this week I had the pleasure of catching up with Judy O’Connell @heyjudeonline, @Seanfish and a non twittering colleague. Judy was one of the keynote speakers at the recent SLANZA conference held in Auckland. The topic of libraries and the 21st century came up and it has left me wondering, what and where are [...]
I read on Allanah’s Blog “life isn’t a race to be finished first” an interesting discussion on what should our children be using pen or pencil and what were teachers preferences. It gave me a moment to think and reflect. I guess first of all we should state some background – the question was which [...]
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1912419,00.html This article in time magazine is looking at the “death of cursive handwriting”. Its an interesting article not because it sits an bemoans the fact that cursive handwriting is now an obsolete skill, rather its looks with some realism that things are changing. I suspect that for most people reading a blog this is [...]
